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Testing The World's Smartest Crow

Mark Rober

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Crow solves escape room

Crows are incredibly smart and can solve complex puzzles. A crow named Cheryl successfully navigated a nine-stage escape room gauntlet designed to test her intelligence, ultimately earning a meal of chicken nuggets.

  • ๐Ÿง  Crows possess remarkable problem-solving skills, tool use, and even facial recognition capabilities.
  • ๐Ÿ† Cheryl, the crow, beat humans in solving the first puzzle by using rocks to raise water levels.
  • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ The escape room included puzzles testing logic, scale use, facial recognition, tool manipulation, and physics.
  • ๐Ÿฆ The custom bird cage was built by Mythbusters' Adam Savage.
  • ๐ŸŽ A human control group also attempted the puzzles, demonstrating different problem-solving approaches.

A man in a baseball cap looks intently at a crow standing on a chessboard, facing him.